anything else than decide on the evidence before him—unless indeed he already holds some secret which will invalidate in advance any evidence that can be brought in favour of the phenomenon in question?”12 Philosopher George Mavrodes is more forceful in his objection to Hume’s configuration of the case against miracles: “These negative experiences, Hume’s and yours and mine, are (for all practical purposes) completely irrelevant to the probabilities of R [some resurrections] and NR [no resurrections].